Category: Death Penalty

The SA post mortem and coronial inquiry system is creaking under the weight of insufficient forensic experts available, not enough money for adequate professional staff, and paper and filing systems more suited to the 19th century. Average delay for inqu…

CLA has launched a campaign to stop the Rudd Government imposting mandatoring internet filtering – censorship – on adult Australians’ access to the internet. The campaign consists of a new website – http://www.censorfree.com.au/ – and a series of eve…

As the Australian Government gets ready to censor the internet, CLA is fighting back with ‘Action Email Cells’ – groups to take the fight to the government. (See Home page article, and lead story in newsletter).Meanwhile the November newsletter a…

An Australian Parliamentary Committee is proposing sweeping changes to previous laissez-faire policies which expose Ausralians to the death penalty overseas, and also ignore what happens to people we extradite to other countries. Civil Liberties Australi…

The United Arab Emirates has shari’a law and a penal code sometimes inconsistent with Australia’s laws and codes, CLA is saying to the federal parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties. For that reason, the responsible Australian Minister should…

CLA has asked Foreign Minister Stephen Smith in writing to lodge a protest against the sentencing to death of an Afghani studying journalism at uni. Australian troops weren’t fighting for a democracy that won’t allow students to explore information at un…

Australia should campaign vigorously to try to overturn a death sentence due to be carried out on a uni student in Afghanistan for ‘discussing women’s role in society’ using information downloaded from the internet. CLA has asked Foreign Affairs Minister…

Quietly inserted in the Japan ‘Treaty’ is a provision for the exchange of information between police forces. So we now have yet another country with the death penalty to whom the AFP can export the death penalty for Australians and other nationalities,…

Australia should not give police or security information to Indonesia without a guarantee that it will not lead to people being shot to death under Indonesia’s capital punishment laws, CLA’s submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties says.…

The article on how relations between Australia and Indonesia may become strained over death penalty matters in 2007 (“Shadow of death looms in Indonesia”, December 30, p9) was very timely. It was an excellent summary of the problems that have arisen and…

The Tasmanian AG has instantly rejected the CLA Australia Day call for an inquiry into the state’s legal system in 2020-2021. 'Nothing to see here, the system's perfect,’ she suggests. See CLA AUST DAY LETTER